Partial cotton lining as seen in photos. The cotton fabrics used here were repurposed pieces taken from another well used textile.

Size

See last photo for measurement chart.
Light Early Fall or Late Summer Weight
12 oz, 217 g

Condition

Good Condition, No Spots. No Holes. A little feathering along the lapel - colar edges.

We have washed & ironed this garment.
It is ready to wear or display as a wonderful Japanese folk textile example.

Comment

These infrequently found Kasuri indigo dyed hemp garments are treasured today as unique survivors of a once ubiquitous but now lost handmade folk textile mingei (people's) craft. This hemp noragi farmers garment was locally fashioned in the warmer regions of Southern Japan.

Even thought cotton fabrics by the 1800s were common throughout Japan, some remote impoverished rural areas still produced homespun hemp fabrics in order to fashion low cost utilitarian garments such as the one seen here. The people who resided in these areas were either too poor to purchase cotton fabrics or their villages were too remote and difficult for the cotton traders to reach. Or perhaps, this person preferred cooler hemp over cotton.